# Dateline or 20/20 - Blowing up fuel tanks of Ford trucks?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 28, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-or-20-20-blowing-up-fuel-tanks-of-ford-trucks/252553 "2004-06-28T15:16:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-or-20-20-blowing-up-fuel-tanks-of-ford-trucks/252553/1 "2004-06-28T15:16:21Z")

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Was it Dateline or 20/20 that blew up the gas tanks of Ford trucks?

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-or-20-20-blowing-up-fuel-tanks-of-ford-trucks/252553/2 "2004-06-28T15:25:03Z")

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It was Dateline.

[Google results](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Dateline+rigged+truck+crash) for Dateline rigged truck crash.

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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-or-20-20-blowing-up-fuel-tanks-of-ford-trucks/252553/3 "2004-06-28T15:29:56Z")

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> [@adam yax](#):
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> It was Dateline.

And it was GM trucks.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-or-20-20-blowing-up-fuel-tanks-of-ford-trucks/252553/4 "2004-06-28T15:36:14Z")

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> [@JRDelirious](#):
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> And it was GM trucks.

I was goint with the assumption that the make of the truck wasn’t the burning passion behind the question. 🙂